6.0.0 - 09/11/14
- New: custom buildings. It is now possible to have villagers live in buildings built by the player
- Once built, those buildings can be "declared" in a controlled village using the summoning wand
- A new controlled village can be created in a building designed by the player using the wand on a gold block
- Fixed a major bug that can caused repeating errors if other mods were added
- Fixed a bug that could make Minecraft crash when viewing certain Millénaire screens
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to open Millénaire chests with signs above them
- Fixed various other bugs
- Improved logs: repeated errors are now posted on one line only
- Some speed optimizations

Millénaire is a mod for Minecraft, a 3D sandbox game. It aims to fill the "emptyness" of Minecraft worlds by adding NPC villages to it, with loose 11th-century Norman, Japanese and Mayan themes and additional cultures planned.

Villages are populated with men, women and children of various kinds, who perform tasks such as trading with the player, expending current buildings or improving existing ones, cultivating crops such as wheat in Norman villages and rice in Indian ones, crafting tools and powerful amulets, etc. As the village expends, the number of villagers increases as couples have children who grow up into new adults.

Help villages grow by trading with them and be rewarded with unique items such as Normand and Indian food or statues and tapestries to decorate your house with. And if they start liking you enough, they might even build you a house of your own.

Millénaire Installer 1.3 download

This installer is not required, but is very much recommended as it makes installing Millénaire faster and simpler, with less risk of errors. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and is compatible with other mods and installers.

Also note that neither Forge nor Millénaire itself are included in the download. You need to download them seperately (Millénaire from here, Forge from its forum - a link is provided in the installer).

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Before installing, make sure your saves are backed-up. I make no guarantee Millénaire won't damage your saves. Also, future releases might not be compatible with current villages.

Server (Mojang or MCPC+, not Bukkit):

6.0.0 - 09/11/14
- New: custom buildings. It is now possible to have villagers live in buildings built by the player
- Once built, those buildings can be "declared" in a controlled village using the summoning wand
- A new controlled village can be created in a building designed by the player using the wand on a gold block
- Fixed a major bug that can caused repeating errors if other mods were added
- Fixed a bug that could make Minecraft crash when viewing certain Millénaire screens
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to open Millénaire chests with signs above them
- Fixed various other bugs
- Improved logs: repeated errors are now posted on one line only
- Some speed optimizations

Millénaire is available in different languages​​. The French and English versions are updated directly by me, others by volunteer translators coordinated by the new Master of Translations. You can check the status of the translations here and email him if you want to help update an existing translation or provide a new one.

Detailled instructions:

First, let him know you will be doing it by email at masteroftranslations@millenaire.org, as other people might be working on the same language. He will put you in contact if that is the case. You are not obliged to translate everything! If you do not have time to do everything, send him what you can. A partial translation is better than no translation at all.

Then, if your language is new for Millénaire, duplicate either the French or the English translation folder in "millenaire/languages" and rename it with the code for your language.

Open the files using a text editor with proper encoding support, meaning especially not Notepad on Windows. Good free editors include TextWrangler on Mac and PSPad, NotePad++ and UltraEdit on Windows

Translate all the text in it in that language to yours, save for the first half of each sentence that should remain in the "native" language of the villagers (French for the Normans, Hindi for the Indians, etc.)

Make sure you save everything in UTF-8 encoding

You can generate a report on how complete your translation is by setting "generate_translation_gap" to true and launching the game. This is useful to check for added strings in new updates.

Send it to him, and thanks!

fr

Français (Français, French)

100%

en

English (Anglais, English)

100%

cs

Čeština (Tchèque, Czech)

65%

de

Deutsch (Allemand, German)

84%

dk

Dansk (Danois, Danish)

11%

es

Español (Espagnol, Spanish)

70%

it

Italiano (Italien, Italian)

87%

nl

Nederlands (Néerlandais, Dutch)

98%

pl

Język polski (Polonais, Polish)

43%

pt

Português (Portugais, Portugese)

98%

ru

Pусский язык (Russe, Russian)

92%

sl

Slovenščina (Slovène, Slovene)

89%

sv

Svenska (Suédois, Swedish)

14%

zh_tw

漢語 (繁體字) (Chinois (traditionnel), Chinese (traditional))

92%

ar

العربية (Arabe, Arabic)

62%

et

Eesti keel (Estonien, Estonian)

64%

zh_cn

普通话 (简体字) (Chinois (simplifié), Chinese (simplified))

96%

ja

日本語 (Japonais, Japanese)

57%

ko

한국말 (Coréen, Korean)

99%

no

Norsk (Norvégien, Norwegian)

83%

uk

Українська мова (Ukrainien, Ukrainian)

73%

The main resource for information on Millénaire is the community-maintained Millénaire Wiki. It includes FAQs with answers to many common questions, a guide for beginners, and many pages of information on the various villagers, buildings and items from the mod.

The other major information source is the Millénaire thread on minecraftforum.net. This active thread is read by many experienced players who can help with questions.

And if you want to show your support for Millénaire on a forum or a website, you can use this signature picture that is automatically updated when a new version comes out:

Bonus for Millénaire contributors:

To thanks all the people who contributed or donated to Millénaire and will do in the future, Millénaire now includes a small bonus for them: a small house available for free from the village heads of each culture (except in MP). If you had already contributed to Millénaire, send me a mail to cedric@millenaire.org with your Minecraft login and I'll enable the feature for you.

And if you want to contribute but don't know how to, here is a small list of areas where I often need help:

Translations: many are incomplete.

Textures: I am always looking for good artists for Millénaire.

Dialogues: the new dialogues feature requires many. New ones would be welcome.

Buildings: new models for existing buildings, or new ideas for lone buildings for example.

For ambitious people: new cultures! The Mayas, Japanese and Byzantines were primarily made by other people.

Wiki: the wiki lacks content, and many sections are out of date.

Before starting, send me a mail to cedric@millenaire.org to tell me about it! (Except for adding content to the wiki - you can do that directly).

And icing on the cake, bonus houses indeed come with a free cake:

Screenshot gallery

Come across small villages while exploring, such as this Norman settlement...

... or this Japanese one, centred on a rice paddy.

Or discover a mysterious Mayan pyramid, abandoned in the jungle.

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

Listen to the villagers discussing their job, life or simply the weather.

See what they are doing and what they need in the villages' centres.

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

Trade with them, to help their villages grow and gain unique blocks, foods and items.

See their villages develop in prosperous communities...

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

...or massive fortresses surrounded by desert.

But be wary in your travels, for hostile bandits and soldiers can be waiting deep in the woods!

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

Encourage villages to trade with one another, or push them to war and see their men battling while the women and children take shelter!

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

And when the pull of adventure becomes too strong, seek out the mysterious Sadhu in the forest to start a great quest on the origins of the world.

Texture pack: Soartex FanVer with Millénaire HD blocks

Who knows, you might even come across the mysterious Panthéon, the massive structure where the contributors and donors to Millénaire are immortalised.